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Kamala Harris smashes fundraising record with stunning $81 million haul over 24 hours (apnews.com)

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The highest 24-hour fundraising total, surpassing Trump's post-conviction and (likely, given that they refuse to disclose it) post-assassination totals.

888,000 small donors, 500,000 of whom were first-time donors for this campaign cycle.

That's the engagement and energy we should have been having this whole time. That's the kind of engagement and energy that landslides Trump.

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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

US military spending is lower than Poland's... and yet Poland does have a universal healthcare system. Both countries are spending less than 4% GDP on their militaries.

If US foreign policy wasn't so doggedly imperialist

medical corporations in the US

a race to the top in which everything is made far more expensive than it needs to be in order to please shareholders

I wonder if the same applies to US military corporations.

So, less bang for the buck in all cases... except for "the shareholders", after discounting all the C-level salaries and benefits, the creative bookkeeping, and non-dividend reserves... meaning only for the "big" shareholders, not the average Joes.

Sounds like death by a ~~thousand cuts~~ million leeches.